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Prepare Early With The Skyrim Race And Perk Tree List

Maybe you need some time to figure that out, so it's good that we have a nearly complete list of all the perks and abilities, broken down by race. Peruse the available skills and determine your eventual play style. The game comes out on November 11, remember.

Each race has an innate set of abilities; for instance, the Orcs have Berserker, the Wood Elf has Resist Poison, Resist Disease, and Command Animals, and the Imperial has Voice of the Emperor and will find more money when looting. Each race does start with different stats, of course, so bear that in mind when making your selection. Then even more choices come from the Perk Trees, which include Speech, Alchemy, Conjuration, Alteration, Heavy Armor, 2-Handed Weapons, etc. As someone why typically plays as a mage, I'm liking those Illusion abilities.

As is the case with any hardcore RPG, customization and choice are the primary appeals and in such categories, Skyrim won't let you down.

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I typically play a Dunmer thief-type character, owing to the Summon Ancestral Guardian ability and other racial bonuses. If that daily power's been removed for Skyrim, I'll have to pick a new race for my thieving, probably Bosmer for Marksman or Khajiiti all the thief bonuses.

...assuming, of course, that Dark Souls releases me from its obsessive grasp in time to play Skyrim when it releases.

I just like to be a plain old human in a wild world of weirdos. I tend to be the equivalent to a Final Fantasy Red Mage, proficient in weapons with enough healing and destructive magic to use when necessary.

Am I the only one not stoked for Skyrim? It looks great but I'm just not ready for a D1P. I am actually more hyped for Dark Souls.

Regardless, I'll probably be Argonian like I was in Oblivion. I'm sure Skyrim will be awesome but a buggy mess on PS3 so I'll wait and see. Plus the 360 getting DLC first is wack, especially for PC & PS3 fans.

I love rpgs as well, but i find that Bethesda games, namely Oblivion, are just a ton of content without any actual reason for the content to exist. In FO3 they tried to shoehorn a story into it, but it was still a giant, mostly-empty map with very little to drive the player forward other than their utter boredom.

I'll probably be a human or orc. I'll start off with some Fire then for the main course switch to two-handed weapons. No dessert please, I'm stuffed.

Side note about Skrim: Check out this (Gideon Emery) guy's body of work. He's done voice acting in about every (cool) video game. That's the type of job I would like to have. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256297/

Whenever it comes to RPGs, I'm a big fan of strength and heavy armor, with some emphasis on bow and arrow and destructive spells. I'll probably end up being a redguard or imperial my first time through.